The Salish People: Volume IV. Charles Hill-Tout
Co. 1918 [A ballad based on a Cowichan tale collected by Hill-Tout]
[35] “The Phylogeny of Man from a New Angle” Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada 15 (1921) Sect. II pp. 47–82
[36] “Recent Discoveries and New Trends in Anthropology” Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada 17 (1923) Sect. II pp.1–27 [Presidential Address]
[37] Man and His Ancestors in the Light of Organic Evolution Van-ouver: Cowan Brookhouse Limited 1925
[38] “Some Recent Phases and Trends in Anthropology” Museum Notes 3 (December 1928) pp. 19–23
[39] “The Story of the Most Unique Fossil Beds Known to Science” Museum and Art Notes 4 (March 1929) pp. 11–16
[40] “Myth of Salmon Coming to Squamish Waters” Museum and Art Notes 4 (June 1929) pp. 62–64 [From British Association Report of 1900 p. 581]
[41] “Indian Masks and What They Signify” Museum and Art Notes 4 (September 1929) pp. 91–93
[42] “Is There a Fundamental Difference in Racial Aptitudes and Capacities, and Does the Mind of the Savage Differ Essentially from That of the Savant?” Museum and Art Notes 4 (December 1929) pp. 149–157
[43] “The Great Fraser Midden” Museum and Art Notes 5 (September 1930) pp. 75–83
[44] “Prehistoric Burial Mounds of British Columbia” Museum and Art Notes 5 (December 1930) pp. 120–126
[45] “Recent Developments in Anthropology ”Museum and Art Notes 6 (March 1931) pp. 14–22
[46] “British Columbian Ancestors of the Eskimo? Interesting Discoveries in the Prehistoric Kitchen Middens of British Columbia, 1932” Illustrated London News (16 January 1932) pp. 90–92
[47] “Vancouver Two Thousand Years Ago” Vancouver Province (17 January 1932) p. 1
[48] “A Unique Native Carving” Museum and Art Notes 1 (June 1932) pp. 3–5
[49] Monuments of the Past in British Columbia, a pamphlet published to “commemorate the Meeting of the Fifth Pacific Science Congress at Vancouver, B.C.” June 1933 [= Museum and Art Notes Vol. VII Supplement No. 5 (June 1933)]
[50] “Revelations of the Stone Age in North America: Relics on Old Indian Camp-sites in the Middle Columbia River Region, Astoundingly Rich Artifacts” Illustrated London News (20 October 1934) pp. 608–611
[51] “The ‘Moses Coulee’ Pipe” Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada 29 (1935) Sect. II pp. 219–224
[52] “The Art of the ‘Wolves of the Sea’” Illustrated London News (15 August 1936) pp. 287–289
[53] An Address Given at Marpole on the Formal Presentation of the Midden Cairn to the City by His Honour Judge Howay [1 May 1938] — issued as a pamphlet with the title The Great Fraser Midden by the Vancouver Art, Historical and Scientific Society, 1938
[54] Series of articles for the Vancouver Morning Star [Vancouver Museum has manuscripts and clippings, one dated 27 December 1938 entitled “Startling Theory on Continents”]
1 Buckley’s article in British Columbia Magazine (March 1913) is itself journalistic and skimpy, but it led to his being chosen for the more substantial biography in volume 4 of Howay and Scholefield’s British Columbia from Earliest Times to the Present (1914). The fact that these Who’s Who entries had the approval of the ladies and gentlemen who were their subjects does not seem to ensure reliability in this case, where Hill-Tout’s place of birth is given erroneously as Plymouth.
2 I am indebted for this information to James E. Hill-Tout, who secured a copy of the birth certificate during a visit to England. During his life-time, Hill-Tout was apparently content to have it believed that he was born at Tout-Buckland in Devonshire “of a family” as Noel Robinson wrote in the Province (23 June 1934) “dating back to the Conquest.” No doubt Devon was his ancestral county.
3 This and subsequent quotations (except where indicated) are from the typescript in the Special Collections Library of the University of British Columbia.
4 See “Some Psychical Phenomena Bearing Upon the Question of Spirit Control” (below), and discussion in the Introduction to the present volume.
5 This statement that he attended lectures should be taken literally, since Hill-Tout has nowhere made the claim that he was a matriculated student at Oxford University.
6 The marriage was in 1882. Mrs. Hill-Tout had been educated in a girls’ private school in Cardiff.
7 In the announcement for “Toronto Collegiate Day and Boarding School for Boys, 46 and 48 Yorkville Ave., Toronto,” Hill-Tout as Principal states: “This school is established after the model of the English Preparatory Schools, and aims at laying the basis of a sound liberal education and preparing its pupils for the further and higher Collegiate Courses” (card in Vancouver Museum papers).
8 The Vancouver Museum papers include Hill-Tout’s notes for lectures on Shakespeare to be given at Whetham College. A printed pamphlet, in the Special Collections Library of the University of British Columbia, lists the courses for Winter Term 1892, including a lecture on “The Human Voice” by Hill-Tout on 8 February 1892.
9 Quoted from “The Art, Historical and Scientific Association of Vancouver, B.C.,” anonymous article in Museum Notes Vol. I No. 2 (June 1926) p. 4.
10 University of British Columbia typescript. Hill-Tout’s leaning towards theological controversy at this time is evidenced by a manuscript notebook among the Vancouver Museum papers, in which he has drafted a review of some recent lectures by Huxley, and two letters to editors, one to Open Court, and the other to Secular Thought dated 15 May 1894. I have been unable to confirm whether or not these letters were actually printed.
11 See the publication of this paper in the present volume, and discussion in the Introduction. A letter from Mr. Myers of the International Congress of Experimental Psychology (in the Special Collections Library of the University of British Columbia) dated 24 October 1892 includes the comment: “I should indeed very greatly care to have the case of prescience of which you speak, with the fullest corroboration which you can obtain.” The correspondence there with Mrs. Alice Bodington of Hatzic should also be consulted on this topic.
12 See the discussion of the “Great Fraser Midden” in volume III of the present edition; also the correspondence with Franz Boas below.
13 See James E. Hill-Tout’s account in The Abbotsford Hill-Touts (1976). Special Collections Library of the University of British Columbia holds Hill-Tout’s homestead entry for a quarter of section 7 township 16 East of Coast Meridian, dated 11 July 1895. For the typescript’s account of Hill-Tout’s logging enterprises, see the Introduction to volume I of the present edition.
14 A letter in the Special Collections Library of the University of British Columbia from John L. Myers of the British Association Section H (Anthropology) dated 25 August 1897 states: “I have not been able to trace it. It was duly announced, however, and taken as read.” See Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 67th Meeting (1897) p. 791; also Ethnological Survey of Canada, First Report of the Committee, p. 440.
15 This was presumably the paper for which Hill-Tout received a $25 prize from the Folklore Society of Montreal in February 1897 (letter in Special Collections Library of the University of British Columbia). It was read at the meeting of the London Folklore Society on 21 June 1898.
16 Hill-Tout’s relationship to the Jesup Expedition is discussed in the Introduction to volume I of the present edition; see also letters to Franz Boas below.
17 Included in the list of papers delivered or “read” at the Belfast meeting of 1898 was “On Some Rock-Drawings from British